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From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: boot params
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 21:06:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010415210611.H2127@plato.local.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ADA7DD1.CF75ED02@opersys.com>; from karym@opersys.com on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:06:25AM -0400

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On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:06:25AM -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > 
> > i do not screw with the bootstrap partition directly. its too much
> > trouble and will just get corrupted.  i edit /etc/yaboot.conf and run
> > ybin.
> 
> How does it get "corrupted"? I've been using hcopy to move things
> around and haven't had any problems. Are you suggesting that problems
> may arise from this type of manipulation?

the kernel HFS driver is unreliable.  hfsutils is fine, and thats what
ybin uses.  ybin is just far more convenient then doing everything
manually.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-16  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-12 20:18 boot params Giuliano Pochini
2001-04-13  0:26 ` Ethan Benson
2001-04-13  8:38   ` Giuliano Pochini
2001-04-13  9:24     ` Ethan Benson
2001-04-16  5:06       ` Karim Yaghmour
2001-04-16  5:06         ` Ethan Benson [this message]
2001-04-16  5:36           ` Karim Yaghmour
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2001-04-16 11:38 Iain Sandoe
2001-04-16 11:46 ` Ethan Benson
2001-04-16 11:59 Iain Sandoe
2001-04-16 12:05 ` Ethan Benson
2001-04-16 18:11   ` Giuliano Pochini
2001-04-16 21:54     ` Ethan Benson
2001-04-18  6:15       ` Timothy A. Seufert
2001-04-19  1:11         ` Ethan Benson
2001-04-17  9:13 Iain Sandoe
2001-04-17 14:03 ` Michel Lanners
2001-04-17 14:19   ` Ethan Benson
2001-04-17 14:55 Iain Sandoe

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